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WHO news releases on tuberculosis

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News releases 2001-2008

30 June 2008

• New rapid tests for drug-resistant TB for developing countries

17 March 2008

• Progress in TB diagnosis and control slowing, says new report

26 February 2008

• New survey reports highest rates of drug-resistant TB to date

22 June 2007

• New strategy adopted on diseases of poverty

29 May 2007

• Stop TB Partnership delivers treatments for 10 million people in six years

22 March 2007

• Global tuberculosis epidemic levelling off: New report

10 May 2006

• Countries provide successful model for massive tuberculosis treatment scale-up

22 March 2006

• Americas, South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions on track to reach tuberculosis control targets

16 December 2005

• New tuberculosis therapy offers potential shorter treatment

24 March 2005

• TB cases and deaths linked to HIV now at alarming levels in Africa

23 March 2004

• WHO reports 10 million TB patients successfully treated under “DOTS” 10 years after declaring TB a Global Emergency

19 December 2003

• Half a million patients suffering from tuberculosis to get free life-saving medicines

15 July 2003

• WHO calls for widespread free access to anti-TB drugs for people living with HIV

24 March 2003

• WHO sees surge in progress against tuberculosis on eve of global summit

4 October 2002

• Need to boost funding for TB control in worst affected countries

22 April 2002

• We can beat AIDS, TB and Malaria, UN agencies says

23 March 2001

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards $10 million to develop new diagnostics for tuberculosis